My first Anniversary was the 4th. I met most of my friends either being helped or helping others with content. My latest foray into trying to help someone showed all mobs in dungeons and in the world were my level to +3. While the new leveling gimmick may make it more interesting in going from 10-50, it effectively prevents a higher level assisting. A couple friends are enjoying the new story content. However they dislike the single path of 50-60. So play an effectively solo and rails game until 60 and only then can you group to raid/mythic+ content. I am so tired of grinding crap for 2+ years. Getting cool gear and then seeing it disabled in ALL content. It feels like Ion has designed a game HE wants to play. Really much to late to change the level squish and the effective design change that makes it impossible to help others as those low level mobs are suddenly 3 levels higher.
And 2 alts are still wandering where ever the botched merger blew them. The latest response was to award me an extra two months of game time while they (maybe) figure out where my alts are and restore them. As I LOATHE what Ion has done to WoW, even a life time free play award is useless as WoW is no longer WoW and I have effectively quit playing. I totally get most of the responses will be put downs, etc. Lucky for me there are now more games then ever to spend time with. Perhaps Ion and the design staff should go replay Zelda, Link, Dragon Warrior, Mario, Final Fantasy and try to recapture why so many of us find them fun even after a couple of decades. Grinding crap is not fun. Ion purposely bloated stats resulting in THREE squishes. Playing Ions version of WoW is rather like believing trumps election fraud fantasies and those fools who keep sending trump money to pay off his debts to who knows who. This last election certainly showed that our country still has rampant racism and those people are ready to believe anything. While Activisions focus on microtransactions has awarded shareholders and top management with large bonuses, game design and game play has sucked. All but a few friends are where ever my lost alts are, not playing WoW. Ion, your designs (bad word).
The way people play evolved and so did WoW, for better or for worse depends on a persons view. OG WoW was released in a different time vs what MMO’s are now. If OG WoW was to be released in todays market it would never succeed.
Not sure why many people think the gameplay has gotten easier when in fact it’s gotten way harder vs what was in classic.
As such such wow still falls under that as we still have populations in the same server large enough to crash the servers. Go to a city I still see hundreads of players.
Mobs scaling and all your points have nothing at all to do with if wow is a massive multiplayer online game.
Your points are about it changing not about if it’s a mmo title your posts correctly and you will get better feedback. Even more so if you get to the point vs writing a wall of text that is pointless to read. Bullet points for your issues really help if you want people to read your post.
I kinda feel like thats just GDs shtick. Take a subject, beat the absolute heck out of it until its nothing but glue, go to another forum such as reddit to do the same exact thing, then come back and repeat.
Evolution is important. Gaming is a progressive thing where people get bored over time.
One example…I think wow understands that committed players (some that played 15+ years ago) had irl stuff happen (ie growing up) so the quality of life changes like the lfg system and solo content keep them included.
These are more loyal than modern transient gamers that are just looking play flavor of the week. (Which has increased with wow due to streamers and such)
Either way I’m not complaining about the wow evolving. I would only complain if they destroy the dynamic too much. Or lore since I want a warcraft 4 rts in the future
And yeah it’s an mmo obviously :). It’s the rpg part we need to worry about losing imo
MMO = massively multi-player on-line
Is WoW massive? Yes
Is WoW multi-player? Yes
Is WoW on-line? Yes?
So I am going to go with: yes, WoW is a MMO.
What I am hearing here is you don’t like the level squish (neither do I) and chromie time in open world content because they removed the leveling advantages of group play for it.
But you can still group up for fun and companionship so not seeing how it is still not multi-player. Or enjoyable for you and your friends. Do you have to be awarded an advantage in order to want to play with your friends? Is their companionship not good enough on it’s own?
I feel like he lacks vision and direction and designs thru the throw-it-at-the-wall-and-see-if-sticks method.
I am sorry this happened to you. I would be livid.
Disagreement does not equal put down, ect.
I had some issues after the pre-patch dropped and unsubbed for a month. Came back and am presently playing Horde characters for the first time thru their side of the story and having a blast. Hope you can find your joy in the game again.
It’s an MMO only in that many people play together in the same instance of the game.
But an MMORPG as it was originally designed to be, no.
Despite it’s popularity, most players jsut want to play a single player game. Or they only want to log in to run a dungeon or raid with their guild. Gone are the days in which WoW is an open world of adventure where having hundreds or thousands of other player to play the game with.
For better or worse, WoW is now just an Theme Park Game.
Games evolve based on how the new generation plays games. By 2030 we will be old news and it’s the 20 year olds at that time which the companies will focus on for revenue generation.
How they like to play will dictate the direction of the industry.
